Day 7 to 8. Poland

After leaving Vienna I paid for a couchette to Warsaw. They were great. Free bottles of water, cookies and a hot coffee brought by the morning. Everything included. Paid about 25€ extra.

Unfortunately, my compartment companion only spoke Polish so our conversation was only gestures :P

In the Saturday morning was not easy to find a train from Warsaw to Lodz. The main station was a mess with new schedules for many trains because some upgrades are being done on the polish railway system. Because of this I had to take a train to a small town called Koluszki near Lodz and fortunately Anna and her father came to my rescue :)






After being presented to the family we wentto visit one old cemetery. This cemetery had the interesting feature of having many Russian and german names. Łódź was many years ago on the border between Germany and Russia.

The 1st of November has just been on Thursday. There are still many persons walking by this places and flowers everywhere.
Some of the tombs are big since many people got rich here on those times.





In this cemetery there are also very strange and scarring trees. There branches are irregular and point in different directions. At night there shadows aunt us. Here I show two of those trees. Don't look for to much time or you may turn into one yourself. :P















We had wonderful food at home and in restaurants. And we haven't drunk any bear at all. Well Anna drunk a bit but I didn't. Well mainly on Saturday Anna had a few 0,5L bears but I did not at all... :)

I can say that polish eat a lot of beet. I had very good beet soaps, for example. Check my photo album for some pictures of the dishes I had.











On Sunday we walked a lot (maybe 15km or more). It was interesting to see how Łódź had suffered from a economic crisis. Many places are being recovered and it seems there is many space for money investment and business in this town. I hope the next few European Union membership years will help to develop a very interesting city.